...made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better ta'en up spades and shools, Or knappin hammers. A set o' dull conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirkes and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ! An' syne they think to climb Parnassus, By dint...

...made you fools, What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better ta'en up spades and shools, Or knappin hammers. A set o' dull conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirkes and come out asses, - Plain truth to speak ! An' syne they think to climb Parnassus, By dint...

...connecting medical knowledge with that of a dead language, irresistibly reminds us of the satire of Burns : A set o' dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains...syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek. But, at the present day, with men of liberal education and extensive intercourse with the world, like...

...knowledge with that of a dead language, irresistibly reminds us of the satire of Burns : A set »" dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains in College...come out asses, Plain truth to speak , An' syne they think-to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek. But, at the present day, with men of liberal education and...

...us of the satire of Burns : A set o' dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains in College elasses, They gang in stirks — and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climb Patnassus By dint o' Greek. But, at the present day, with men of liberal education and extensive intercourse...

...come out as*ce, Plain truth to speak; an' syne they think to cliir-b Parnassus By dint o' Greek Í Ole me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then though I drudge through dub an' miie A t pleugh or cart, My mu.se, though namely m attire, May touch...

...shools, Or knappin hammers. A set o' dull conceited hashes, 'onliivi; their brains in college clauses ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak | ' n' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek ' Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, 'hat's...

...fools, What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammcrs. A set t>' dull, conceited hashes, Confuse their brains in college...Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire ; Then though I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the...

...you fools What sairs your grammars ? Ye'd better ta'en up spades and shools, Or knappin-hammers. " A set o' dull, conceited hashes. Confuse their brains...in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak ; And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek." In a second epistle to the same person,...

...taen up spades and sliools, Or knappin-hammers. A set o' dull conceited hashes. Confuse their hrains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come...asses, Plain truth to speak ; An' syne they think to climh Parnassus By dint o' Greek ! Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire ! That's a' the learning I desire...